Label-holder for mail-cars



(No Model.)

0. W. VIOKERY.

LABEL HOLDER FOR MAIL CARS.

Patented Se pt. 16,1884.

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UNrrnD STATES i ArnNr OFFICE.

CHARLES WV. VIOKERY, OF ATLANTA, GEORGIA.

LABEL-HOLDER FOR MAIL-CARS.

GPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No; 305,254, dated September 16, 1884-.

Application filed May 6, 1884; (N model.)

. reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a cross-section through a distributing-table and mail-bag rack on the line mm of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the 'tions indicated by means of labels.

same table and rack as arranged in the interior of a mail-car for use on railroads. Fig. 3 is an end view of one of mylabel-holders,with the rack-rod in section, and showing one of the mail-bag hooks used in connection with it. Fig. 4 is a plan of the same label-holder, also showing a mail-bag hook and the method of forming the end of the rack-rod and attaching it to the racleframe,

Similar letters of reference, where used in the different figures, indicate corresponding parts.

Priorto my invention mail-bags have been attached to racks in mail-cars by means of hooks, and have had their respective destina: These were generally attached to some portion of the framing of the car, and when the position of any bag was changed by additional bags being attached to the rack, or from other causes, much inconvenience frequently resulted by bags being separated from the labels indicating their destination.

It is the object of my invention to provide means for holding the labels indicating the destination of mail-bags when hooked to the rack used in connection with a distributingtable in mail-cars, so that the destination of the mail-bags can be clearly seen, and so that each label and its attached holder must al ways maintain the same position relative to the mail-bag it indicates. To accomplish this I form the label-holderwith ears on the back corresponding in form to the shape of the rod, made square in section, and fastened in the rack with the angle upward, and I place the label-holder on the rack-rod of itself immediately behind the mail-bag and between the two hooks by which the two back corners of each mail-bag are supported, so that while the hooks and label holder are quite free to slide on the. rod the label-holder is always between the hooks and immediately in rear of the mail-bag. I also construct the labelholder of such a length that when the hooks are close against each end of it there shall be sufficient room left to drop mail-matter into the bag, the label-holder forming a distancepicce between the two hooks.

I will now proceed to describe my inven tion more particularly with reference to the annexed drawings, in whicha is the distributing-table, preferably made to hinge in the middle and fold back to admit of easy access to the mail-bag rack b.

c c are mail-bags, (shown by dotted lines.) (I d are the rack-rods, supported in the rackrod frames 6 c, made with suitable stops, )5, for supportin g the flap of the distributin g-table. g g are the hooks for holding the mail-bags. h h are the label-holders, which are formed with ears 2' i on the back,to slide freely on the angular rods (1 (Z, and with suitable grooves,

7a 70, on the front, to receive the label showing the destination of the mail-bag.

I prefer to form the ends of the rack-rod as shown in Fig. 4, so that the frame 0 is held between the nut and the shoulder of the rod. Additional hooks and label-holders can then be readily placed on the rod by slacking the nut and springing the rod clear of the frame.

I do not confine myself to the exact form and proportions of parts herein shown, as I am aware that modifications can be made therein without departing from the principle or sacrificing the advantages of my invention-as, for instance, the rack b can be made with slots, instead of eyes, to receive the rack-rods, the grooves 7c can be widened to receive a block of wood in lieu of an ordinary paper label, and the rack may be provided with more than one supporting-leg.

I attach importance to the angular rack-bar and the position in which it is secured in the frame, whereby I am enabled to use a smaller and lighter rod, but also hold the labels and hooks in their proper relative positions.

I am aware that a bag-rack composed of 100 Having now described inyinvention, what I angular in cross-section, mail-bag hooks, and claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters a supporting frame, substantially as shown Patent of the United States, is and described.

1. The combination of a label-holder sub- In testimony whereof I affix my signature in 5 stantially such as described with an angular presence of two witnesses.

rack-bar placed with one of its an les up )er- I T T T most and mounted in two or 1110133 raci rod CHARLES X IGLERX' frames, as set forth. XVitnesses:

2. The combination of a label-holder sub- J OSEPH FORREST,

1o stantially such as described with a rack-rod H. J. BERNHARD. 

